Snowshoe hare numbers rise and fall dramatically in a regular cycle of eight to 10 years. A year or two later, Canada lynx numbers follow. This enduring relationship is borne out by Indigenous ...

Colorado biologists are speculating that a natural up-and-down cycle in snowshoe-hare population may be a key factor in the lack of lynx kitten births the past two years.The Colorado.

Colorado's $3.5 million lynx-reintroduction effort was started before basic research was undertaken on the availability of its main prey, snowshoe hares, scientists now acknowledge after no new ...

Tom Hanks takes us inside the life and death drama of snowshoe hares and the Canada lynx. The Americas Explained: Snowshoe Hares, Masters of the Frozen Forest in the Yukon Skip to main content ...

“Lynx management and snowshoe hare habitat are synonymous,” Partyka said. “Ninety-two percent of lynx food base comes from the hare. What the management direction did, ...

Lynx will eat squirrels and other small forest creatures when they can get them, but their principal diet is the snowshoe hare. The wildcats go where the rabbits go, and their populations rise and ...

A 2008 lynx scat analysis conducted in Northeastern Minnesota, co-authored by Moen, found up to 97% of scat specimens studied contained hare remains. Snowshoe hares have famously cyclical ...

Over the five years of our study in the Yukon’s Kluane region, we collected over 14,000 hours of audio recordings from 26 individual lynx. After using various methods of data processing, we were ...

The snowshoe hare requires 300g (10.6 oz) of browse per day, and uses the two pairs of upper incisors to cleanly sever the twigs, buds, and bark of woody vegetation during the winter. It prefers small ...

SHREWSBURY, Vt. — A Canada lynx, an endangered species in Vermont, has been confirmed in the state for the first time since 2018, and farther south than the last confirmed sighting. A Shrewsbury ...

Lynx reintroduction program hindered by lack of hare researchBiologists say more research is needed on key prey speciesBy Bob Berwynsummit daily newsSummit County, CO ColoradoEmail Print ...